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Re:If Susan Can Learn Physics, So Can You (2013) by paulpauper on Monday February 20, 2017 @09:06AM (#13687286)
It's not your fault...her IQ is probably one in 100 million ...it's called winning the genetic powerball. Like why is Ed Witten so smart at math and physics? His brain is wired that way to understand those concepts very easily relative to the amount of effort required. If we break down IQ into verbal and math components, some people have very high verbal IQ and only average math; some both.

Learning QED and general relativity is often unobtainable even for people who are 'good at math'.

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Re:If Susan Can Learn Physics, So Can You (2013) by jessriedel on Monday February 20, 2017 @10:17AM (#13687921)
> If we break down IQ into verbal and math components, some people have very high verbal IQ and only average math; some both.

Yes but note that verbal and math scores are highly correlated. Likewise, basketball and football are different skills, and some people are much better at one than the other, but if we look over a population, being very good at one is a strong predictor that you are much better than average at the other.

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